The highly-stylized show, set in the Camelot years of the early 1960s, is wildly popular for its portrayal of American life in the days of three-martini lunches, guilt-free smoking and ever-shifting social values.
In a public talk in Los Angeles, summarized on men’s website Grantland.com, Matthew Weiner said its central character, New York advertising executive Draper, will be transported into the present when the series wraps up.
That means that Draper, who is in his 40s after four seasons on the AMC cable channel, will end up end a wizened gent in his mid-80s. Jon Hamm, the actor who plays him, now is 40 himself.
“What I’m looking for, and how I hope to end the show, is like – it’s 2011,” said Weiner, noting that “Mad Men” is appreciated not only as entertainment, but also as social commentary.
“Don Draper would be 84 right now,” said Weiner, who is also the show’s head writer and an executive producer of the now-completed HBO mob-family drama “The Sopranos”.
“I want to leave the show in a place where you have an idea of what it meant and how it’s related to you.”
Weiner said the multiple Emmy-winning series – which begins its fifth season in March next year – will aspire at its end to depict the arc of Draper’s complex life.
“It came to me in the middle of last season,” he said. “I always felt like it would be the experience of human life, and human life has a destination.”
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